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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
Yeah, no, nobody would ever toss a roach on the trail.
Damn you for making me think about cockroach penises!
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
@hungrier said in In other news today...:
Yeah, no, nobody would ever toss a roach on the trail.
Damn you for making me think about cockroach penises!
Damn you for making me duckduckgo "cockroach penises".
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
@hungrier said in In other news today...:
Yeah, no, nobody would ever toss a roach on the trail.
Damn you for making me think about cockroach penises!
You have my attention...
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
@hungrier said in In other news today...:
Yeah, no, nobody would ever toss a roach on the trail.
Damn you for making me think about cockroach penises!
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
"It's unlikely that many people toss an edible or a roach on the side of the trail. It also makes sense from the level of toxicity we see," Dolginow said.
Yeah, no, nobody would ever toss a roach on the trail. It must be that they're smoking so much that it gets into their digestive system and there's enough THC in the shit that a dog can eat it and get high.
Filed under: How can you even tell if a dog is high?, r/highdogs
My dog has found (what I assume are) roaches at a motel we stayed at. Twice (different locations). His reactions were really scary - the vet bills for both were about $700. He became very paranoid and uncoordinated.
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Oh dear, oh dear…
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@dkf We're missing @blakeyrat to explain to us how Boeing makes the best and most secure planes
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
@dkf We're missing @blakeyrat to explain to us how Boeing makes the best and most secure planes
You forgot yelling at those morons who dare to as much as ask what’s wrong with Airbus.
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
@dkf We're missing @blakeyrat to explain to us how Boeing makes the best and most secure planes
He might rant that it's a Honeywell component which is failing.
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@JBert
No true American?
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As a follow-up to My previous post in May:
Somebody was feeling lonely 21 years ago:
EDIT: Oh wait, there's more news floating in:
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Here's one funny trick which the police is no longer accepting:
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
Oh dear, oh dear…
If it's just displays as it seems, and they just fail, it's not that big of a problem. Displays can fail for other reasons and unless they show valid looking, but incorrect data—which they won't if it is the display unit failure rather than the sensor unit failure—pilots learn how to deal with it.
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@Bulb said in In other news today...:
If it's just displays as it seems, and they just fail, it's not that big of a problem. Displays can fail for other reasons and unless they show valid looking, but incorrect data—which they won't if it is the display unit failure rather than the sensor unit failure—pilots learn how to deal with it.
Sure, provided they fail in obvious ways and only temporarily then the problems are limited in most circumstances. There are critical times when you really don't want them to fail (take off and landing, especially in mountainous areas) but otherwise there's not too much of a problem. And you don't want them to fail permanently either.
Still, it does make you wonder what they're doing with displays that mobile phone signals can (apparently) cause the effect.
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@dkf …each of the six displays is a separate unit, so hopefully they don't all fail at once.
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How big is that seagull?
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@DogsB said in In other news today...:
How big is that seagull?
That gull must have thought that the wee doggy was a rather funny red herring.
Here's a European herring gull in action so you can estimate its size:
From Wikipedia. Bonus fact: the description of the picture says it was taken in B*****m
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@JBert
Confirm! That definitely looks like the typical uglyness of the Belgian coast. Probably the fish stairs, a staircase in Ostend where there are stands selling fish. And seagulls eating it.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/21/world/europe/netherlands-dropping-children.html
Belgium and the Netherlands can't be the only places where this kind of thing is done?
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@Luhmann
Also about scouting: Flemish scouting groups where flabbergasted that the official jamboree activities included guns
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@Luhmann This I find less surprising:
Another report surfaced in 2017, when scout leaders in Belgium dropped 25 children in the woods, then drank a number of beers and fell asleep, leaving the children wandering in the forest after their appointed pickup time. The campers finally rang someone’s doorbell and got a ride.
Will somebody think of the children?
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@Luhmann said in In other news today...:
@Luhmann
Also about scouting: Flemish scouting groups where flabbergasted that the official jamboree activities included gunsPretty standard around here. Our troop has an annual campout where they shoot rifles and shotguns and air rifles and also archery.
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@Luhmann said in In other news today...:
official jamboree activities included guns
scout leaders in Belgium dropped 25 children in the woods
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3lPV1VKK4w
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
Pretty standard around here.
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@boomzilla
Uh yeah ... forgot to mention ...the jamboree is somewhere inyour backyardUSA! USA!
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@JBert
Obviously not ...
Did the article mention those several occasions the a group of children was run over by a car?
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@Luhmann said in In other news today...:
Did the article mention those several occasions the a group of children was run over by a car?
Was it the same group of children each time?
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@loopback0
I don't remember ... as is accustomed for troup leaders we where shitfaced drunk on Cara pils
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@Luhmann said in In other news today...:
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/21/world/europe/netherlands-dropping-children.html
Belgium and the Netherlands can't be the only places where this kind of thing is done?
A Dutch newspaper article in the 'news about the news' category remarks a key difference between Dutch woods and (at least stereotypical) US woods, namely the number of dangerous animals present. For Dutch woods, this is approximately zero. Additionally, in NL, the likelyhood of not having GSM coverage (and not having any 100 meters over either) is very low.
https://www.telegraaf.nl/nieuws/2082429888/amerikanen-verbijsterd-over-oer-hollandse-traditie
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@PleegWat said in In other news today...:
a key difference between Dutch woods and (at least stereotypical) US woods
Don't forget that
my backyardtypical US woods might be larger than B*****m.Edit: So much for that joke, the forest which is basically my backyard is only 1/10 the size of , counting both contiguous French and German parts.
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
contiguous ... parts
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@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
@topspin said in In other news today...:
contiguous ... parts
What did you expect in a post talking about B*****n woods?
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
@Luhmann said in In other news today...:
@Luhmann
Also about scouting: Flemish scouting groups where flabbergasted that the official jamboree activities included gunsPretty standard around here. Our troop has an annual campout where they shoot rifles and shotguns and air rifles and also archery.
Yup! Learning to handle and safely use weapons was a fun part of my Scouting days.
They also had "drop you off in the woods and you work your way back to camp" activities of various difficulties, but I wasn't in Scouts long enough to do them.
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@Luhmann said in In other news today...:
Belgium and the Netherlands can't be the only places where this kind of thing is done?
I haven't heard about that specifically in France (actually yes, kind of, but only in what's considered as backwards religious extremist scouting groups) and I think it would not be accepted. What most mainstream scouting organisations do have, though, are what we call "exploration", which is somewhat similar: groups of children have to, basically, walk from A to B alone, often over 2 days (sometimes 3), with troop leaders usually meeting with children at least in the evening.
Almost every scout I know has good memories of it, often including difficult moments (getting lost, arriving at camp too late etc.), and it is definitely intended as being part of teaching children to care for themselves (including preparation beforehand such as planning of the route), so all the moral/psychological aspects mentioned in TFA are the same, even if the practice is different.
There are some accidents/problems from time to time, like in TFA, but similarly, it's usually not a huge deal (I mean it's obvious a huge deal when children die, which has happened in the past, but that's very rare). The only case I personally know is a group who broke into a car by breaking the window for, uh, no good reason that we could figure. The dumbest part is that they wrapped the rock in a sweater to reduce noise, but then left the sweater inside the car. The sweater with all group signs, the troop name, and even the tag name of the scout himself .
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@remi said in In other news today...:
The sweater with all group signs, the troop name, and even the tag name of the scout himself .
I guess you had to take away his "covert operations" badge?
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@JBert Well, in exchange he gained a "how does a police station works" badge...
We were lucky (and mostly he, although the repercussions for the troop as a whole could have been much worse) that neither the owner of the car, nor the police were too upset by it. He got the full interrogation by police, call to the parents, repaying the damages from his money (or at least working towards it -- in reality insurance covered it, but still) and so on, but he was not actually prosecuted (nor arrested), which means that what really was a stupid teenager thing would not have any lasting legal impact.
In a sense, that could fit in some garage threads, because there clearly was some privilege at work here. A youth the same age but from a suburb, and not part of a scouting group (that, even though marred with various scandals across the years, still are seen as "well behaved" children), would likely have it much worse.
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@JBert said in In other news today...:
OK, I know it's actually an American thing but facts ;barrier; jokes?
It definitely isn't specific to America. Maybe wearing all of them on a sash is, but the principle isn't. They even have a special name here, “little beaver”.
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A local No Frills Supermarket had a dead body stuffed behind a cooler for 10 years and nobody knew! I always thought those places looked shady!
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How about NO
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This is like a turducken of stupidity
- The Amber Alert system as it's implemented in Canada uses the maximum level of alert that you can't turn off, rather than the Amber Alert one
- Apparently people called 911 to complain about it
- Change.org petition
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turducken
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@hungrier said in In other news today...:
The Amber Alert system
It would have been so much funnier if Trump had trolled the shit out of that system like some people predicted.
Someone hook up his Twitter account to it.
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Surveillance of the masses requires a lot of bandwidth, I guess
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@TimeBandit I don't believe a damn word of it. Anything that Boris the Limp Schlong says that is true is entirely accidental, such is his total lack of commitment to truth and integrity.